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Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Preview – Week of February 5, 2024

Washington, February 5, 2024
Here’s what to watch for from House Republican committees during the week:

Armed Services

On Tuesday, February 6, the Quality of Life panel will hold a Member Day hearing.

On Wednesday, February 7, the Subcommittee on Readiness will hold a hearing called "State of DoD Housing and Aging Infrastructure."
 
Education and the Workforce

On Tuesday, February 6, the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education will hold a hearing called "Protecting Missing and Exploited Children."
 
Energy and Commerce

On Tuesday, February 6, the Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security will hold a hearing called "Politics Over People: How Biden’s LNG Export Ban Threatens America’s Energy and Economic Security."

On Tuesday, February 6, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing called "Protecting American Health Security: Oversight of Shortcomings in the FDA's Foreign Drug Inspection Program."
 
Financial Services

On Tuesday, February 6, the Committee on Financial Services will hold a full committee hearing called "The Annual Report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council."
 
Foreign Affairs

On Tuesday, February 6, the Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a full committee markup on the following legislation:
  • H.R. 7151, the Export Control Enforcement and Enhancement Act (Wagner)
  • H.R. 6609, the Foreign Military Sales Technical, Industrial, and Governmental Engagement for Readiness Act or the TIGER Act (Waltz)
  • H.R. 7089, the Global Anti-Human Trafficking Enhancement Act (James)
  • H.Con.Res. 27, Condemning Russia’s unjust and arbitrary detention of Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza who has stood up in defense of democracy, the rule of law, and free and fair elections in Russia (Keating)
  • H.R. 6603, the No Technology for Terror Act (Moran)
  • H.Res. 82, Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the need to designate Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, the need to appoint a Special Envoy for Nigeria and the Lake Chad region, and for other purposes (Smith)
  • H.R. 7159, the Pacific Partnership Act (Case)
  • H.Res. 965, Calling for the immediate release of Ryan Corbett, a United States citizen, who was wrongfully detained by the Taliban on August 10, 2022, and condemning the wrongful detention of Americans by the Taliban (Tenney)
  • H.R. 6046, the Standing Against Houthi Aggression Act (Clyde)
  • H.R. 7122, the Stop Support for United Nations Relief and Works Agency Act of 2024 or the Stop Support for UNRWA Act of 2024 (Smith)
  • H.R. 7152, the Divided Families National Registry Act (Wexton)
On Wednesday, February 7, the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere will hold a meeting called "The Fight for Freedom in Venezuela: A Conversation with María Corina Machado."

Homeland Security
 
On Tuesday, February 6, the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection will hold a hearing entitled, “Securing Operational Technology: A Deep Dive into the Water Sector.”

House Administration
 
On Wednesday, February 7, the Committee on House Administration will hold a full committee hearing titled “American Confidence in Elections: Confronting Zuckerbucks, Private Funding of Election Administration.”

Judiciary
 
On Tuesday, February 6, the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government will hold a hearing.

Natural Resources

On Tuesday, February 6, the Committee on Natural Resources will hold a full committee markup on the following bills:
  • H.R. 1829, To require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the Pleasant Valley Ranger District Administrative Site to Gila County, Arizona (Crane)
  • H.R. 2925, the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act of 2023 (Amodei)
  • H.R. 4297, the Bolts Ditch Act (Neguse)
  • H.R. 4984, the D.C. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Campus Revitalization Act (Comer)
On Thursday, February 8, the Subcommittee on Federal Lands will hold an oversight field hearing in Sierra Vista, Arizona, titled “Biden’s Border Crisis: The Consequences of Failing to Secure Federal Border Lands.”

Oversight and Accountability

On Tuesday, February 6, the Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold a full committee markup on the following legislation:
  • H.R. 5798, the Protecting Our Nation's Capital Emergency Act of 2023 (Garbarino)
  • H.R. 262, the All Economic Regulations are Transparent (ALERT) Act of 2023 (Good)
  • H.R. 6972, the Securing Chain of Command Continuity Act (Kiggans)
  • H.R. 6283, the Delinking Revenue from Unfair Gouging (DRUG) Act (Miller-Meeks)
  • H.R. 5658, the Vote by Mail Tracking Act (Porter)
  • H.R. 5887, the Government Service Delivery Improvement Act (Khanna)

Rules

On Monday, February 5, the Committee on Rules will meet on the following measures:
  • H. Res. 863, Impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, for high crimes and misdemeanors (Greene)
  • H.R. 485, the Protecting Health Care for All Patients Act of 2023 (Rodgers)

Science, Space, and Technology

On Tuesday, February 6, the Subcommittee on Energy and the Subcommittee on Research and Technology will hold a joint hearing called "Federal Science Agencies and the Promise of AI in Driving Scientific Discoveries.”

Small Business

On Tuesday, February 6, the Committee on Small Business will hold a full committee hearing called "Under the Microscope: Reviewing the SBA’s Small Business Size Standards."

Transportation and Infrastructure

On Tuesday, February 6, the Subcommittee on Aviation will hold a hearing called "The State of American Aviation and the Federal Aviation Administration."

Ways and Means

On Tuesday, February 6, the Committee on Ways and Means will hold a full committee hearing titled “Examining Chronic Drug Shortages in the United States.”

On Wednesday, February 7, the Subcommittee on Trade will hold an hearing titled "Advancing America’s Interests at the World Trade Organization’s 13th Ministerial Meeting."